An Italian mother-daughter duo cooking Italian recipes the healthy way

Healthy Donuts

Who doesn’t love donuts?! Kids, adults… everybody craves them! And what if we made them healthy? Our dough is made of nutritious ingredients, and we can’t wait for you to try them!! Just remember, that balance is the key for a healthy diet, so like Gigi Hadid once said, to “remain sane” just enjoy your favorite comfort food as well!!

Ingredients for 14 donuts

550 g Whole Wheat Pastry Flour

200 g Water

110 ml Almond Milk

40 g extra virgin olive oil

100 ml Agave

1 tablespoon honey

7 g dry yeast

Lemon zest

Blueberries

Raspberries

Edible natural food colors (optional)

In a mixing bowl, mix the flour, water, milk, oil, agave, honey, yeast and lemon zest. Work the dough for about ten minutes, then move the dough into a bigger bowl made of glass. Seal with clear food wrap. Let it rise in the oven for about 1 hour or until the dough will doubled his volume. We then divided the dough into different batches, and made a blueberry batch, a raspberry one and a plain.

With the help of a cookie cutter obtain 14 disks of dough and with your fingers, make a hole in the middle. We have used a donuts-pan, previously greased with coconut oil. Cover the pan with a cloth or clear food wrap and let the donuts rise in the oven for another hour or until doubled in size.

At this point they are ready to be baked. Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees Celsius and cook the donuts for 10 minutes or until they are golden brown.

Allow to cool completely and then decorate them as you wish. We sprinkled some with powdered sugar, we topped others we an home made all natural lemon frosting.

For the icing

1 lemon

Water q.s.

2 tablespoons cornstarch

3 tablespoons agave

Dissolve the lemon juice, starch, agave and water. Put on low heat and cook while stirring constantly, allowing to thicken. As soon as the icing is thickened, you may add the natural edible colors to add some color.